Today in history: March 17

1963: Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, an American, was beatified by Pope John XXIII. (She was canonized 12 years later by Pope Paul VI.)

1966: A U.S. midget submarine located a hydrogen bomb that had fallen from a U.S. bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.

1973: U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, a freed prisoner of the Vietnam War, was joyously greeted by his family on the tarmac at Travis AFB in California in a scene captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

1988: Avianca Flight 410, a Boeing 727, crashed after takeoff into a mountain in Colombia, killing all 143 people on board.